Within the framework of the University-Business Chairs, the University of Lleida and the Dean's Office of the Registrars of Property, Mercantile and Movable Property of Catalonia have formalized an agreement for the creation of the Chair of Registry Law. This initiative, in which the Faculty of Law, Economics and Tourism and, in particular, the Department of Law, should have a clear leading role due to the scientific field it represents, aims to promote academic activities, research, training and dissemination and transfer of knowledge in the field of Registration Law, with a special focus on the dynamics of the real estate and mortgage market. The objective of this Chair is to promote the analysis of legally and socially relevant issues, as a tool to contribute to respond, and to enhance the knowledge of registry law in both the theoretical and practical fields.

The official presentation of the agreement took place on January 15 at the Rectorate of the University of Lleida, in a ceremony presided over by Mr. Jaume Puy, Rector of the University of Lleida, Mr. Vicente García-Hinojal, Dean of the Registrars of Catalonia, and Ms. Immaculada Barral, Director General of Law, Legal Entities and Mediation of the Department of Justice of the Generalitat de Catalunya, which constitutes an evident and complete institutional support to this academic initiative. The program of activities will officially begin this academic year 2024-2025.

The Chair of Registry Law at the UdL, which is the second to be created within a university in Catalonia, will be directed by the Professor of Civil Law at the University of Lleida, Dr. Carles Enric Florensa, and will be held by Dr. Carles Enric Florensa, a professor of Civil Law at the University of Lleida, and Dr. Carles Enric Florensa, a professor of Civil Law at the University of Lleida. Carles Enric Florensa, and will be coordinated by Maria Tenza, director of the Registry Studies Service of Catalonia, and the collaboration of the different people who are initially linked to it among the Registrars of Catalonia - with a special link with those who make up the delegation of Lleida -, and faculty of the Department of Law of the UdL.

It is worth highlighting the great value of the creation of this Chair as a clear manifestation of the will of the projection of the University of Lleida and its collaboration with the Catalan society and institutions around a discipline, the registry law, which plays a key role in our legal security system.

After signing the agreement, Dr. Florensa remarked that “from the Department of Law we must take advantage of the creation of the Chair to give a new internal impetus to all academic, teaching and research activities that may have to do with the subjects of the Chair, and also take advantage of the magnificent tool of external projection that represents to act hand in hand with a partner and sponsor as solvent and powerful as are the Registrars of Catalonia”.

Dean García-Hinojal highlighted the great value of the creation of the Chair, considering it as the “culmination of an exciting project” for the Registrars of Catalonia. In his words, this project reinforces the commitment of the collective with the development and promotion of Mortgage Law, a discipline that plays a key role in Catalan society. The dean also expressed his hope that this Chair will become a “living space of academic enrichment”, where the various realities that make up the real estate sector and its regulation can be studied in depth.

For his part, the Rector expressed his satisfaction with the agreement, since it represents “not only a boost to law studies, but also to the University's mission to work for society as a whole”.